@IIYAMA
I wanted to ask you this question for a couple of weeks already. You seem like a very intelligent guy. But why are you wasting your time dealing with people like @Professional?
The forum and the game itself are full of braindead people, what's the point?
(No offence , I truly respect your work)

It's not about the custom maps, MTA's playerbase is the problem. MTA is nowadays played mostly by children which don't care for quality or orginality. I believe the server was great, from all the screenshots I have seen, too bad that I didn't visit it.
If you want players, make the server children friendly.